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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA ) is an internationally standardised assessment that was jointly developed by participating countries and administered to 15-year-olds in schools. PISA assesses how far students near the end of compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and skills that are essential for full participation in society. In all cycles, the domains of reading, mathematical and scientific literacy are covered not merely in terms of mastery of the school curriculum, but in terms of important knowledge and skills needed in adult life.
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25-Jan-2010
This report uses recent economic modelling to relate cognitive skills – as measured by PISA and other international instruments – to economic growth, demonstrating that relatively small improvements to labour force skills can largely impact the future well-being of a nation.
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04-Dec-2009
This report provides and in-depth examination of 15-year old students’ mathematical literacy using the results of the second survey of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment, PISA 2003.
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26-May-2009
School students are still being held back by gender perceptions. In most countries, girls and boys now show similar results in PISA, but systematic assessment of gender differences shows that students are still being held back by their own gender-related perceptions.
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28-Apr-2009
Which factors contribute to the successful performance of students in science? "Top of the Class" provides some answers by exploring how the academic achievement of students relates to the characteristics of individual students, schools and education systems.
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31-Mar-2009
Teenagers in OECD countries are mostly well aware of environmental issues but often know little about their causes, raising questions about how well societies will be equipped to tackle such challenges in the future, according to a new OECD publication.
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07-Jan-2009
Try out the tests that the students who participated in PISA have taken. "PISA Take the Test" presents all the publicly available questions from the PISA surveys. Some of these questions were used in the PISA 2000, 2003 and 2006 surveys and others were used in developing and trying out the assessment.
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22-Jan-2009
Learn about the methodology underlying the PISA 2006 survey. The "PISA 2006 Technical report" provides a level of detail that allows researchers to understand and replicate its analyses.
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04-Dec-2007
OECD’s latest PISA survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds shows that some countries have seen significant improvements in student performance since 2000.
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23-Feb-2007
This brochure on the OECD's Programme for International Students Assessment describes what the programme has achieved so far and sets out plans for the project up until 2015.
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21-Dec-2006
The PISA 2003 country profiles tool allows the user to obtain information for a country or set of countries on the performance of 15-year-olds (in mathematics, science, reading and problem solving), their family background and approaches to learning, as well as the way their schools are managed.
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Volume 1 - Analysis: Gives the most comprehensive international picture of science learning today. Volume 2 - Data: Presents the PISA 2006 full data set underlying Volume 1.
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